Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

The Other is Big. Really Big. We are in no position to attempt to encompass its full scope in one small note, nor can we claim to have captured all of it in this anthology. This ambiguity and unwieldiness is what drew us to this concept as an anthology subject-it requires each poet to wrestle with its definition for themselves. The Other exists only in the negative space around the Self and often says as much or more about its definers than those it attempts to define. As artists, we were intrigued by the notion of not only cataloging stories of conflict with the other, but of reconciliation and blurred boundaries between Self and Other. The poems that follow approach the Other with techniques as diverse as their authors and tackle it from various viewpoints: on societal or interpersonal scales, sounding off through borrowed voices and digging to uncover those strange corners of Self that remain foreign to their owners. We hope that you find these poems as thought-provoking and moving as we do. -Lisa Sisler & Lea C. Deschenes, Editors

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